What is telling there is the fact that the academics and amnesty bloke all acknowledge that Abui Dhabi is a great deal more benign than other equivalent regimes in the region.
On that basis the lack of doubt expressed in the article that the people under arrest are such victims is noteworthy. You could point to any regime in the world and identify people whose incarceration was questionably political on the face of it. I am sure that many of the recent rioters could put up a case for persecution if they put their minds to it.
But a government's job, as much as anything else, is to maintain order and uphold the rule of law and this is what I imagine is the underlying feature here.
Given the agendas that some have against our club, I'm surprised more stories like this haven't surfaced tbh. The fact that they haven't given how much papers like the Mail will doubtless be looking for them, speaks volumes about the moderate nature of the regime in Abu Dhabi.
Perhaps the real problem, in fact, is that it is far too liberal for the Daily Mail's liking...
